Dual POV
Mara
I didn’t message him the next day.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOBNUP8ZFPX
I didn’t need to.
Instead, I opened my music app and created a playlist.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ksRD92Xlk
Just three songs.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwXTvDAVFNa
One about missing someone I never had.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPFLsBfYK88
One about learning how to breathe again.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQbeSk3V2uh
And one—soft and wordless—that made me think of him sitting across from me in the rain.
I named it “For When You’re Not Sure.”
No text. No explanation. Just a link I dropped in his inbox that night.
Ten minutes later, a message appeared:
“That third track wrecked me. Here’s mine.”
His playlist was called “If I Said Too Much.”13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZPfBCONdGv
And it did.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpEamFA9dZ9
The second song was a love letter, the third sounded like goodbye, and the fifth…13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPCj5f8Xs3o
The fifth was mine. The one I hummed through the window.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGgzgNHwiLw
Except this time, it was a cover—with lyrics.
That’s when I realized:13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDXSk1hinBe
He’d heard me long before he met me.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUu95gL8wX1
And maybe… he’d felt something, too.
Eli
I’ve always found it easier to say things through music.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiihdtXwHob
Words can lie. Songs don’t.
When she sent that playlist, it felt like a door opened.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4yFhMyRWyl
Not wide. Just enough.
So I sent mine back, every track carefully chosen.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCyZrOAQgeK
No fluff. No random filler. Just the truth I couldn’t voice yet.
She didn’t reply for hours.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTb3bbhNYWg
When she finally did, it was just:
“I don’t know what this is yet. But I want to find out.”
That was it.
And somehow, it was more honest than any three-page confession could’ve been.
So we kept exchanging playlists—13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7KrLHHRePZ
One every night.
No pressure. No labels.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWzehfrM3Dr
Just music.
And in that quiet rhythm, we found something neither of us was ready to name.
Not yet.13Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiYOTvn1UE8
But soon.
